Children’s Hospital Researchers Find Vitamin D May Treat and Prevent Severe Allergic Response to Common Mold in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 25 – Vitamin D may be an effective therapy to treat and even prevent allergy to a common mold that can cause severe complications for patients with cystic fibrosis and asthma, according to researchers from Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC , the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Louisiana State University School of Medicine . Results of the study, led by Jay Kolls, M.D., Ph.D. , a lung disease researcher at Children’s